The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-28
CURRENT TOPICS.


A BOX car, complete, was built in four
hours at Anniston, Ala. ~
THE American refugees in Canada are
talking Of forming a club.
THE late Justice Woods estate is valued
ut from $4,000 to s2O0,0
A BRIDGE Is to be built across the Mis-.
souri, river at Sioux City, la.
FINpLAY's maximum daily gas yield
would equal 2,5O0 tons of coal.
INVITATIONS keep coming to the Presi-
dent to visit various portions Of the co',n-
try.
THE proposed monument to General Lee
at Richmond, Va, will not be begun until
fall.
TEE New York Legislature has declared
everlasting hostility to the English spar.
row. ....t ets..., f ,a
A PRETTY town named Gladstone has
been founded in the San Gabriel valley,
California. aI lfa bl
No LESS than $4,000 persons assembled tho
Washington Monument during the year
ending April 1.
THERE is village in Wales with aname
containing seventy-two letters and twen-
ty.two syllables. ......t...
KANSAS will send 25,00o veterans to the
National encampment which is to be held
in st. Louis in September.
ASTRONOMERS are discovering good
many Of those celestial tramps otherwise
known as comets, this year.
In one of the French schools there is
natural magnet which is said to be capable
OF lifting four times its weight.
AT recent type-writing contest in New
York Miss M. c. Grant wrote 1884 words in
four minutes and forty-two seconds.
FROM one tree recently felled at Bowers
vile, o., it is said that 400 fence posts
and twenty-five cords of stove wood were
cut.
THE Shah of Persia would like some
enterprising American capitalist to help
develop his kingdom by constructing rail
ways.
SADIE MoYER, of Lansford, Pa, is ten
years old, weighs 1876 pounds, and is TAX
ing on fat at the rate of two pounds
week.
A RESIDENT of Savannah exhibits 12
large sweet potatoes, which were grown
on single vine. They completely fill
barrel. a...
PROF. CARL BRAUN, of Bates College, says
that the 'Devil's darning needle has no
sting at all, but he eats millions Of mos
quitoes." t.
WALKING conservatores is the latest
name for the florally decorated women
seen on the fashionable thoroughfares and
in snowy equipages. .s .
DIVORCED women are barred from Queen
Victoria's receptions. This old rule is held
to religiously by the Queen, and she will
make no exceptions. .a.r-.
AFTER all it is consoling to reflect that
the American dollars taken over to Eng
land by Henry Irving will be brought back
by Hon. Buffalo Bill. .fi
THE British authorities have again de-
clared that the Gate City Guards of At
lanta, Co., will not be permitted.to to parade
on English territory. 7Ht
IT is announced that it will take fully six
months before the English government can
demonstrate by actual experiment wheth-
er coercion will coerce.
NEW York has a grocer named Coffey, a
cur}ed-hair dealer named Willcomb, milk
dealers named Well and Water and a cloth
ing firm named Taylor Il Cutter.
THERE is considerable likelihood that at
least portion of the crown jewels of
France will spend the summer at some one
of the American watering places.
RUSSIA has decided that the Russian
language is good enough for Russian chill
drcn, and this shall be the language Of
education throughout the empire.
ANGLERS in the State Of New York are
being considerably annoyed by a law
which makes the catching of trout less
than six inches long misdemeanor.
AN Alsatian who tattooed himself all
l.
oued for six months when he came to be
examined for admission to the German
army.
The New York hotel men are now SC
well organized that out of the income
from $1,000 guests day they lose less than
one per cent. of their profits by reason OF
beats.
A BosToN doctor raises his solemn voice
against cotton stockings for winter wear
He says they are destroying the women OF
New England with rheumatism and neu.
ralgia Ilaur
GLADSTONE has library containing L..
600 volumes. Works on theology are the
most numerous. He also has large depart
ments devoted to Shakespeare, Dante and
Homer.
WHEN the time came for Theodore Baker
to let the sheriff of Las Vegas know thai
he was ready to be hanged he said: "Le,
her go, Gallagher" and died without Q
struggle.
SOMEBODY strolled into the sanctum of q
Mississippi editor, and addressed him a.
''a fostering sore on the body polite" The
intruder will take his meals in bed unit
further notice. Iu't iH4o
A HAvERsrRAw (CT.) woman, who be
Neved there was ''good luck'' in having
bird fly in house, chased canary bird in
and in doing so upset and broke ten-dol
lar looking-glass. 1iu Il.ito
In Japan, according to q correspondent
of the Reading Times, a man Introduces hi
better half as "my fool Of q WIFE" Tn,
same sentiment often prevails here, bu
we lack the Japanese frankness.
A REPORT comes from Dresden, Saxony
of steam omnibus, which Is intended t,
run regularly over the country roads. /
10 managed by two men and carries forty
six passengers, with considerable freight
A PHILADKLPHIA economist figures ou
the reduction Of car fare in that city from
six to i've cents as positive loss to poo
people. He says that when they walked
before they saved six cents, and now the,
only save Ave cents.
PARIsIAN milliners seem to eschew bird
of all kinds They are seen, but not OF
women who wish to be Of the mode
Plumes are very popular, however, bu
ribbon garniture has the best hold OF
feminine fancy.